To answer facetiously, we are mathematicians. Mathematical language (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/mathematicians_are_like_frenchmen-whatever_you/179777.html) works hard for a more precise language so that we may more effectively communicate fundamental truths. It is the same in all technical fields: to you and me, "disease", "disorder", and "syndrome" all mean the same thing, but they would not be synonymous in the context of a medical journal. A properly trained mathematician is the same, except unable to turn it of at the end of the day.
To blow the point out of proportion, teachers with the freedom to assert that "minus" is an adjective will train students who will feel free to assert that the real numbers are ordered by magnitude.
Re: The vorkers kontrol the means ov produktion
Date: 2007-11-06 03:23 pm (UTC)To blow the point out of proportion, teachers with the freedom to assert that "minus" is an adjective will train students who will feel free to assert that the real numbers are ordered by magnitude.